Re: Calculations and exponents in languages
| From: | John Gunther | Date: | Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:04:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Calculations and exponents in languages | ||
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Algol used ^
More common, historically, is the use of ** as the exponentiation operator: Fortran, PL/I, perl, python
Curiously, many modern languages -- inexplicably -- don't have an exponentiation operator: C, Java, Javascript, PHP
John Gunther
Robin Vickery wrote:
On 28/06/06, tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com <tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com> wrote:Huh.. thanks for the illustration Robin. Can't say that I did much with exponents when I've played around with perl or python or C.. and never worked with Java. You've expanded my view. Ok, now what languages DO use ^ for exponents?The only one I can think of off the top of my head is BASIC. Even Bash uses ^ as an xor operator: $ echo $(( 7 ^ 2 )) 5 $ echo $(( 7 ** 2 )) 49 -robin